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By DOMENIC POLI

GREENFIELD — All Souls Church is participating in the statewide Spirit of Reparations Film Series, hosting a screening of “The Cost of Inheritance” on Sunday.Residents are invited to the church at 399 Main St. from 5 to 9 p.m. Doors open at 4:45 p.m...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — Two decades after leaving the school district, former Newton School Principal Carol Jacobs is back at the helm in an interim capacity.Jacobs is filling the principal position that was left vacant following the abrupt resignation of Sadie...

By DOMENIC POLI

This year’s Quabbin History Calendar is the 40th annual edition, and it could also be the final one.J.R. Greene has produced a calendar every year since the mid-1980s and, as a result, is running out of photos of the towns and villages that were...

GREENFIELD — In an effort to make shopping locally easier and more rewarding this holiday season, the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce has launched a revamped Franklin County Gift Card program that supports a growing list of small businesses with...

By JOHN R. CHAMBERS

 After a decade-long hiatus, our family decided to have Thanksgiving in our hometown of Greenfield, where my mother still resides on the same street she purchased with my dad in 1974.The family group chat started with the menu and who would make what,...

Last month, real Americans voted for Donald Trump, and angry women and weak men voted for Kamala Harris. Thankfully, Democrats got creamed, and Trump’s common-sense agenda resonated with over 76 million Americans who are sick and tired of failed...

By PATRICK MCGREEVY

 Imagine this: A man with an automatic rifle kills a woman in downtown Chicago. He runs into a church, with police in pursuit, bolts the door behind and holds 30 worshipers at gunpoint. The police chief arrives and demands the gunman surrender. When...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

BOSTON — Three Massachusetts Appeals Court judges heard oral arguments on Wednesday after former Greenfield Police Chief Robert Haigh Jr. and the city challenged a 2022 Hampshire County Superior Court ruling that found he and the Police Department...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

Running consistent passenger rail service for 140 miles through northern Massachusetts communities to connect North Adams and Boston could attract hundreds of riders per day, but would also require hundreds of millions of dollars in up-front capital...

By SHERYL HUNTER

The Franklin County Community Chorus will raise its voices together in song and welcome in the holiday season when it holds its annual winter concert on Sunday, Dec. 8, at 3 p.m. at the Greenfield High School. The chorus will deliver a program of...

By MADISON SCHOFIELD

GREENFIELD — There’s just a few days left to purchase a ticket for the seventh annual “Taste of the Towns” restaurant raffle to support the Greenfield Public Library. Tickets will be drawn on Saturday, Dec. 7, and the winners of the $1,200 in...

By TOM WANSLEBEN

 There have been several well-intended writers who made false claims of how the dams on the Green River are good for aquatic life. As a professional biologist who restores damaged ecosystems, I am here to tell you that the majority of river dams are...

GREENFIELD – Under the direction of Hannah Cherry, the Greenfield High School Band will perform a Winter Holiday Concert on Wednesday, Dec. 4, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the school auditorium.Admission is free. A bake sale, raffles and a silent auction of...

By AL NORMAN

Before I moved to Franklin County, I lived in a two-floor apartment in Cambridge with six other people. Today, Cambridge has 60,000 housing units. According to Jason Furman, a Harvard economics professor, officials in Cambridge are working on a...

A huge shout-out to Garden Cinemas, namely Isaac Mass (apologies to his wife, unaware of her involvement), for all they have brought to the historic venue as well as what is being brought to us day to day, week to week, month to month. Outstanding!The...

So this past week, on Nov. 27, the recycling truck refused to pick up my cardboard boxes. I caught them while they were going down the other side of the street and asked why. I was told that because I stacked my cardboard boxes inside of another...

By CHRIS LARABEE

With bodies of water receding and brush fires throughout the state, it was clearly a dry fall for the Pioneer Valley and new data analysis confirms the season was historically dry for western Massachusetts.Preliminary National Weather Service data for...

Monday, Nov. 412:48 p.m. — Larceny reported on Oak Hill Acres. Services rendered.2:04 p.m. — Threat reported at Federal Street School. Report issued.3:58 p.m. — Larceny reported on Lincoln Street. Services rendered.7:22 p.m. — Heriberto Carmona, 69,...

By AMALIA WOMPA

GREENFIELD — Building off the longstanding tradition of the tree lighting ceremony and the days when Santa would visit the now-closed Wilson’s Department Store, the Greenfield Business Association (GBA) has been adding to the holiday cheer with its...

By ROB PECK

Our society, and our community, are at a crossroads. Do we decry our country’s deep divisions and bemoan our personal differences? Do we seek common ground, pool our resources and play to people’s strengths? (Details at 11!) Culture wars separate and...